Yesterday was such a beautiful day, 
we decided to go for a hike. We like to go up Grapevine Canyon and see the petroglyphs, its only about 20 mins from our house. We thought we would go further up this time and get some pictures of the waterfalls. Well, we got to the parking lot at the end of the trail head and there were some kids on the other side of the lot saying there was a huge Rattle Snake in a bush. Of course Gary wanted to see ( I did too but was way more scared that Gary). When we walked over I found a nice big rock to stand on about 25 ft from where the alleged snake was. Gary was much closer. We couldn't really see anything at first so Gary started throwing small rocks into the bush. Well finally we seen him moving in the bush. About that time Mark and Annette pulled up, Mark grabbed a stick and starting poking around in the bush. After a few minutes and a couple of pretty good pictures . Mark said this is 2 snakes. (he was standing even closer to the bush than Gary was.) If you click on the second picture you can get an idea how big both the snakes were. The head in the center, we think belongs to the body on the right, the body in front of the head is the other snake. I think I need some Snake boots! Needless to say we decided to only go up to the Petroglyphs and no further. We did get a couple pictures of small waterfalls and a pretty big lizard.
we decided to go for a hike. We like to go up Grapevine Canyon and see the petroglyphs, its only about 20 mins from our house. We thought we would go further up this time and get some pictures of the waterfalls. Well, we got to the parking lot at the end of the trail head and there were some kids on the other side of the lot saying there was a huge Rattle Snake in a bush. Of course Gary wanted to see ( I did too but was way more scared that Gary). When we walked over I found a nice big rock to stand on about 25 ft from where the alleged snake was. Gary was much closer. We couldn't really see anything at first so Gary started throwing small rocks into the bush. Well finally we seen him moving in the bush. About that time Mark and Annette pulled up, Mark grabbed a stick and starting poking around in the bush. After a few minutes and a couple of pretty good pictures . Mark said this is 2 snakes. (he was standing even closer to the bush than Gary was.) If you click on the second picture you can get an idea how big both the snakes were. The head in the center, we think belongs to the body on the right, the body in front of the head is the other snake. I think I need some Snake boots! Needless to say we decided to only go up to the Petroglyphs and no further. We did get a couple pictures of small waterfalls and a pretty big lizard. 
Nice.
ReplyDeleteNow about that trip...I'm thinking NO!
Kidding, let's hike up there later this week. I have hiking shoes and really thick socks. Oh, I don't really care about snakes...but I do have that killer long lens that I can get close ups with...from a mile away.
We are really excited for you to come down! Maybe you should check into some snake boots.
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